Professor John Lynch

Professor John Lynch
 Position Deputy Dean Research / Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
 Org Unit Public Health
 Email john.lynch@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 36541
 Location Floor/Room 4 ,  Rundle Mall Plaza ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

     

    One of the world’s “highly cited researchers”

     

    John Lynch is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. He is a Visiting Professor of Epidemiology in the Bristol Medical School:  Population Health Sciences at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Bristol in the UK. He spent 20 years working in North America and before returning to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ in 2009 he held professorial positions at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Michigan in the USA, and at McGill ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ in Canada.

    He is an internationally recognized scholar in epidemiology and public health. In 2005 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Population Health. In 2007 his work in social epidemiology and public health was recognized with an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Medical Science from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Copenhagen. In 2009 he was awarded a prestigious NHMRC ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Fellowship. In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2019 he won Research ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥’s Award for Data Innovation.

    He has over 350 academic publications that have attracted over 49,000 citations and a Google H index of 101. From 2014 to 2018 he received Thomson Reuters’/Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher” status that places him in the top 1% of cited scientists internationally in his field.

    In the last 5 years, he was Chief Investigator A or B on over $10 million in NHMRC competitive research funding. In total over that period, he was a Chief Investigator on successful competitive research grants worth over $22 million. He leads an NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence (2015-2020) called "EMPOWER: Health systems, disadvantage and child well-being."

    He currently serves on several international, national and local scientific advisory groups. He was an editor of the highly ranked International Journal of Epidemiology from 2005-16.

    His research interests include
    o child health and development
    o social and health inequality
    o pragmatic RCTs and natural experiments of early life interventions
    o large scale linked data systems to enhance evidence-based public health
    o research that makes a difference in improving policy, practice and service delivery

  • Research Interests

    His research interests include
    o child health and development
    o social and health inequality
    o pragmatic RCTs and natural experiments of early life interventions
    o large scale linked data systems to enhance evidence-based public health
    o research that makes a difference in improving policy, practice and service delivery

  • Publications

    Peer Reviewed Journal Papers

    Lynch has more than 350 publications, with an H Index of 101. His work has been cited about 50,000 times.

     

    Google Scholar link

    https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=r7LFjiAAAAAJ&hl=en

     

     

     

     

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Entry last updated: Friday, 18 Aug 2023

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